xxiii, 468 pages ; 21 cm

A history of the Americans who chose to side with the British in the American Revolution that sheds important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed because they remained faithful to their mother country

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-444) and index

Preface: "Little less than savage fury" -- Two flags over Plymouth -- Arming the Tories -- Flee or fight -- " To subdue the bad" -- The war for Boston -- Into the fourteenth colony -- The farewell fleet -- Beating the Southern drums -- "Broadswords and King George!" -- War in the loyal province -- Terror on the neutral ground -- "Indians must be employed" -- Treason along the Chesapeake -- Vengeance in the valleys -- Seeking Southern friends -- Despair before the dawn -- Bloody days of reckoning -- And they began the world anew

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